It was smiles and back-slapping all around on Tuesday as your state and county officials paved the way for raising your taxes. There are other reasons for putting creation of a Valley hospital district on the November ballot, to be sure, but it really comes down to shaking more money out of taxpayers' pockets.

“I still don’t know what they said to each other,” a Texas nurse told Nurse-Week magazine in 1999 after enlisting a hospital house cleaner to interpret for a patient who could not speak English.

Most nurses and allied health workers will continue to earn solid middleclass salaries in 2008. But even though chronic shortages in many healthcare occupations will continue, the heady days of substantial real increases in pay may be over.

Nearly 300 people were evacuated from Banner Healthcare’s administration offices and two were taken to Banner Desert Medical Center for evaluation on Thursday after complaining of the smell of fumes from roofing adhesive coming into the building’s ventilation system.

April 12, 2005

Scottsdale Healthcare Corp. decided to look inside its own ranks for future leadership.

More than a year after President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, health care experts who gathered in Glendale Friday said the law continues to evolve. “This is a very fluid piece of legislation,” said Ruthann Laswick of Black, Gould & Associates. “HHS (the Department of Health and Human Services) is constantly making clarifications. What you’re told one day could be completely different a few days later because their interpretation has changed.”

More than a year after President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, health care experts who gathered in Glendale Friday said the law continues to evolve. “This is a very fluid piece of legislation,” said Ruthann Laswick of Black, Gould & Associates. “HHS (the Department of Health and Human Services) is constantly making clarifications. What you’re told one day could be completely different a few days later because their interpretation has changed.”

State lawmakers took the first steps Wednesday to reversing their decision to cut state-provided health care for about 350,000 adults and children.

Nurse Shirley Righi’s reaction to Scottsdale Healthcare hospitals recently earning Magnet status likely typifies that of her 2,049 associates. It’s unlikely, however, most of them are willing to express it the way she did.

Nurse Shirley Righi’s reaction to Scottsdale Healthcare hospitals recently earning Magnet status likely typifies that of her 2,049 associates. It’s unlikely, however, most of them are willing to express it the way she did.

Another excellent column and realistic perspective by Jon Beydler (“Obamacare,” Sept. 24). The supposed majority who oppose the Affordable Care Act are being whipped into a frenzy by professional misinformation politicos, and once again, the majority is falling for it.

Few, if any, patients who check into the University of Utah's Huntsman Cancer Institute for surgery or chemotherapy will give a moment's thought to whether its medicine cabinet is stocked.

Arizona is now officially challenging Congress and the Obama administration over the new federal health care law.

Owner: Agnes Oblas, nurse practitioner

More than a year after President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, health care experts who gathered in Glendale Friday said the law continues to evolve. “This is a very fluid piece of legislation,” said Ruthann Laswick of Black, Gould & Associates. “HHS (the Department of Health and Human Services) is constantly making clarifications. What you’re told one day could be completely different a few days later because their interpretation has changed.”

 I am outraged that the government thinks it can fix health care without spending time in the trenches. As a family doctor in Phoenix since 1974, I am convinced Washington is completely off the mark. Having zero medical experience, politicians delude themselves that they can heal a system tangled in a web of malignant complexities by blindly wrapping it in costly bureaucratic bandages.

Catholic Healthcare West (CHW) has announced the addition of three new outpatient surgery centers in Phoenix, Peoria and Scottsdale, further expanding upon the network of ambulatory surgery centers within the CHW and United Surgical Partners International (USPI) joint venture affiliation.

Sixteen-year-old Jesus Yanez doesn’t think of himself as a hero, but that’s the role he found himself in when he saved another student’s life at Mesa’s Westwood High School.

Regardless of what you think about the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also called Obama Care, the delivery of healthcare in the U.S. needs a major overhaul. The focus should be on patients and on high value healthcare. That means doing what it takes to get better outcomes, better safety, better service at lower overall costs — a focus on value, not on volume.

Some proposed new flexibility for states to comply with the new federal health care law won't do much good for Arizona, Gov. Jan Brewer said Monday.

Gov. Janet Napolitano urged lawmakers Monday not to cut state aid to education, health care, domestic violence programs and foreclosure assistance as they seek to deal with the state's record deficit.

Banner Health Group officially broke ground on four 21,000-square-feet East Valley health centers in Chandler, Gilbert, Mesa and Queen Creek Thursday.

Gov. Jan Brewer is praising Thursday’s ruling by a federal judge in Florida allowing 20 states, including Arizona, to sue the Obama administration to overturn the new federal health care law.